Re: [gentoo-user] root fs moved, but no init

[Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>]

On Sunday, July 24 at 09:49 (+1000), Adam Carter said:

> Summary;
> Copied / from sda3 to sdb3
> Updated the fstab in the new disk (/dev/sdb3       /
> btrfs           noatime,compress=lzo    0 0)
> Updated the kernel line's root=/dev/sda3 to /dev/sdb3 in grub.conf,
> but left the root (hd0,0) as it is. So, kernel is loaded from sda but
> init should run from sdb.
> When booting the kernel successfully mounts /dev/sdb3 as root fs
> Then the system halts at one of the freeing memory messages, but I
> assume the problem is that init isn't executed from /dev/sdb3

I wouldn't assume.  If init isn't executed you should get an explicit
error from the kernel:

        Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init=
        option to the kernel.